Principal Quality Engineer

Job Overview

com About LawnStarter LawnStarter is the nation's leading on-demand marketplace for lawn care and related services, with over $150M in annual bookings. We're expanding beyond lawn care to become the one-stop shop for all home services.

About Engineering Quality at LawnStarter Our QA team is growing, and we're investing real money in better test coverage. We already have shared quality standards and a QA squad that organizes itself horizontally across teams.

Job Description

What we don't have is someone dedicated to owning that vision: every QA is heads-down on their own team, so nobody has the room to drive the standards forward, unify how the squad works, or push the state of the art. That's the gap this role fills.

It's not a nice-to-have we're adding because things are going well. It's the structure and leadership we need to make what we've already built actually compound.

The Role You'll be LawnStarter's first Principal Quality Engineer, reporting directly to the Head of Engineering. We already have quality standards, working CI/CD gates, and AI tooling in the mix.

Nobody owns the vision behind all of it, drives it forward, or leads the QA squad that keeps it running. You will. This isn't a QA management job today. You won't spend your day approving tickets or chasing bug counts.

You'll take ownership of the standards and tooling that already exist, work collaboratively with the QA squad to improve them, and keep pushing the state of quality engineering forward as the org grows.

You're not starting from zero, and you're not inheriting a mess either. That means the job isn't "invent a strategy nobody has thought about. " It's "listen to the QAs who live in this every day, understand where the pain is, and lead them toward what's next.

Key Responsibilities

• .com About LawnStarter LawnStarter is the nation's leading on-demand marketplace for lawn care and related services, with over $150M in annual bookings.
• It's the structure and leadership we need to make what we've already built actually compound.
• Nobody owns the vision behind all of it, drives it forward, or leads the QA squad that keeps it running.
• You will.
• This isn't a QA management job today.
• As the QA squad grows, this role could take on direct people management of QAs, so hiring, coaching, and performance management experience is a real plus even though it's not the day-one job.
• That means the job isn't "invent a strategy nobody has thought about." It's "listen to the QAs who live in this every day, understand where the pain is, and lead them toward what's next." We need someone who reads where LawnStarter is today and builds from there, not someone who shows up with a favorite tool stack and a coverage number they picked before they met the team.
• What makes this role different: You own and evolve the quality strategy together with the QA team, instead of building one in a vacuum or just executing someone else's.

Required Skills and Qualifications

• As the QA squad grows, this role could take on direct people management of QAs, so hiring, coaching, and performance management experience is a real plus even though it's not the day-one job.
• AI-native quality tooling : AI agents and skills, including Claude Code style tooling, that any engineer can run on demand for test generation, code review, and quality guidance.
• CI/CD and test infrastructure : Required checks, quality gates, E2E and visual regression pipelines, performance budgets, and the mobile test automation strategy across emulators and real device clouds.
• Someone who shows up insisting "we need to hit 90% coverage" or "everyone must use Playwright" without first learning how the team works will struggle here.
• If your test automation experience stops at reading dashboards other people built, this role will feel out of reach fast.

Benefits and Perks

• Benefits Compensation & Benefits Base salary : $80,000-$100,000 USD annually.
• Flexible PTO: Measured on outcomes, not hours logged.

Work Location and Schedule

This role is listed as Remote USA with location information shown as Remote USA. The employment type is Full Time.

About the Company

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